add clone_single_branch function

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+2015-06-14  Treeve Jelbert <treeve@sourcemage.org>
+	* clone_single_branch: added 
+
 2015-06-07  Treeve Jelbert <treeve@sourcemage.org>
 	* move bluez-qt tokde-frameworks
 	* qt5-qmake/signond: enw spell, single-signon
diff --git a/clone_single_branch b/clone_single_branch
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+# clone_single_branch is intended for use when we only want a small part of a big repository 
+# for immediate use.
+# This is especially true for projects which do not release tarballs.
+
+# This function would normally be used in the PRE_BUILD script,
+# in which case DOWNLOAD  should simply be 'true'
+
+# VERSION can be either a branch name or a tag
+
+base_clone_single_branch() {
+  cd $BUILD_DIRECTORY
+  if [[ -d $3 ]];then
+    message "${PROBLEM_COLOR}$3 already exists!\n$DEFAULT_COLOR"
+    false
+  else
+    message "${MESSAGE_COLOR}Cloning into $3\n$DEFAULT_COLOR"
+    git clone -q --depth=1 --single-branch -b $1 $2 $3
+  fi
+}
+
+clone_single_branch() {
+  base_clone_single_branch $VERSION $SOURCE_URL $SPELL
+}